Spinning toy



I. GERTLER SPINNING TOY Q June 6, 1939.

Filed April 12, 1938 Patented June 6, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlEE 3- Claims.

My invention relates to a spinning toy, and has for its principal object the provision of a relatively simple, practical, and inexpensive spinning toy that includes a doubled string orcord that twists, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, as the toy is manipulated, and said doubled cord or string passing through a pair of bodies preferably spherical in shape, one of said bodies being substantially larger than the other and provided with a recess or pocket that is adapted to receive the smaller body as the toy is manipulated.

A further object of my invention is, to provide a toy of the character referred to, that is primarily intended to provide an interesting and pleasing pastime for the manipulators, and which will also necessitate the development and exercise of a certain degree of skill, in causing the smaller one of the bodies to move lengthwise of the twisted 20 string, so as to enter and leave the recess or pocket in the larger one of the bodies.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts that will 25 be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the whirling toy constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken through the center of a modified form of the body that is provided with the recess or pocket.

Fig. 4 is a section taken through the center of the recessed or pocketed body and showing the smaller body positioned in the pocket or recess.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, In designates a doubled cord or string which may be of any desired and convenient length; for instance, from ten to fifteen or twenty inches, and the ends of this doubled cord are suitably secured to rings II, which may be formed of wood, metal, Celluloid, and the like, of such size as to receive the thumb or finger of the manipulator of the toy.

The larger one of the bodies that is carried by the twisted cord, and which is designated by the numeral I2, is preferably spherical in shape, and it may be formed of wood, compressed fiber, Celluloid, or the like, and formed in said body in a recess or pocket l3.

Formed through the body l2, and extending from the bottom of the pocket or recess I3, axially tothe surface of the body, are small bores or openings [4 through which passes the two parts of the twisted cord.

Thesmaller body l5 that is carried by the twisted cord, may be formed from wood, com- 5 pressed fiber, Celluloid, or the like, and formed through the center of said smaller member is a bore NS for the reception of the twisted cord.

In order to add to the appearance of the toy, the surfaces of the bodies l2 and [5 may be disl0 tinctively colored or decorated.

The size of recess I3 is such that it will conveniently receive the smaller body l5, and in Fig.

4 I have shown the smaller body positioned within the recess. 15

In the manipulation of the toy, the rings l l are engaged on the thumbs or two fingers of the manipulators hands, and with the bodies l2 and I5 functioning as weights, the cord and said bodies are whirled so that those portions of the cord between the bodies and the rings H are twisted in the same direction.

After the twisting function, the rings l2 are pulled away from each other to draw the twisted cord taut, and the pull exerted upon the twisted portions will cause the cord and the bodies carried thereby to twist and rotate in a reverse direction, and the momentum gained by the bodies will twist the cord in the direction reverse to that in which it was originally twisted.

After the boides have started to whirl or rotate as described, such action may be continued by alternately moving the hands toward each other to slacken the cord, and then spreading the hands apart to draw the cords taut, and these actions twist those portions of the cord between the bodies and the rings, first in one direction and then in the other.

By varying the alternate pulling and slackening movements upon the cord as it is twisting, first in one direction and then in the other, the smaller body 15 may be caused to move lengthwise of the cord, or the larger body may be caused to move toward the smaller body until the latter is positioned wholly within the recess l3, as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 and by solid lines in Fig. 4, and these actions may be accelerated by raising one hand or the other a short distance relative to the other hand during the manipulation of the toy.

While I have shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, the bodies l2 and I 5 as being spherical in form, and of spheroidal shape in Fig. 3, it will be understood that said bodies may take various shapes; for instance, ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or in the form of discs having thick central portions.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a spinning or whirling toy that is relatively simple in construction, inexpensive of manufacture, and which will afford an interesting and pleasing pastime for the persons engaged in spinning the toy.

It will be understood that minor changes in the size, form and construction of the various parts of my improved spinning toy, may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described, without departing from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A spinning toy comprising a doubled cord, a body provided with apertures through which the strands of said doubled cord pass, said body being provided with a recess, a smaller body provided with an opening through which passes both strands of said doubled cord and which smaller body is adapted to move into and occupy the recess in the larger body While the doubled cord is being twisted and untwisted.

2. A spinning toy comprising a doubled cord, a body provided with a pair of apertures for the reception of the strands of said doubled cord, said body being provided with a recess, a smaller body provided with an axial opening that receives both strands of the doubled cord and which small body is adapted to move into and occupy the recess in the larger body as the strands in the end portions of the doubled cord are twisted and untwisted.

3. A spinning toy comprising a body provided with a recess, said body being provided with a pair of apertures that extend from the bottom of said recess to the surface of said body, a smaller body provided with a single aperture, which smaller body is adapted to enter and occupy the recess in the larger body and a doubled cord, the strands of Which pass through the aperture in the small body and through the two apertures of the larger body and the end portions of the strands of said doubled cord beyond the two bodies being adapted to twist and untwist so as to move the small body into and out of the recess in the large body.

IRENE GERTLER. 

